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Evolution of Helping and Harming in Viscous Populations When Group Size Varies [PDF]
, 2013 Funding: Balliol College and the Royal Society.Recent years have seen huge interest in understanding how demographic factors mediate the evolution of social behavior in viscous populations.
Gardner, Andy, Rodrigues, Antonio M. M.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ensuring that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed from their families by child protection services remain connected to their kin, Country and culture is a priority to begin to redress the intergenerational trauma and harm caused by colonisation.
Sharynne Hamilton +9 more
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Altruism Design in Networked Public Goods Games [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Many collective decision-making settings feature a strategic tension between agents acting out of individual self-interest and promoting a common good. These include wearing face masks during a pandemic, voting, and vaccination. Networked public goods games capture this tension, with networks encoding strategic interdependence among agents ...
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Microbes can help explain the evolution of host altruism
Nature Communications, 2017 The evolution of altruistic behaviour, which is costly to the donor but beneficial for the recipient, is among the most intriguing questions in evolutionary biology.
O. Lewin-Epstein, R. Aharonov, L. Hadany
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Bodies of the deceased are important for training healthcare professionals in anatomy education, research, and clinical skills. While body donation programs exist in many countries around the world, few exist in Africa, likely due to strong religious convictions of the public, socioeconomic factors, and other difficulties.
Oheneba Boadum +2 more
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Designing nudge agents that promote human altruism [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Previous studies have found that nudging is key to promoting altruism in human-human interaction. However, in social robotics, there is still a lack of study on confirming the effect of nudging on altruism. In this paper, we apply two nudge mechanisms, peak-end and multiple viewpoints, to a video stimulus performed by social robots (virtual agents) to ...
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Psychopathy to Altruism: Neurobiology of the Selfish–Selfless Spectrum
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The age-old philosophical, biological, and social debate over the basic nature of humans as being “universally selfish” or “universally good” continues today highlighting sharply divergent views of natural social order.
James W. H. Sonne, D. Gash
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Violence and warfare in prehistoric Japan [PDF]
, 2017 The origins and consequences of warfare or largescale intergroup violence have been subject of long debate. Based on exhaustive surveys of skeletal remains for prehistoric hunter-gatherers and agriculturists in Japan, the present study examines levels of
Arimatsu, Yui +5 more
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Altruism across disciplines: one word, multiple meanings [PDF]
, 2018 Altruism is a deep and complex phenomenon that is analysed by scholars of various disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, biology, evolutionary anthropology and experimental economics.
Chapuisat, Michel, Clavien, Christine
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